we are ugly but we have the music
Mar. 28th, 2006 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaiden"Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'." - Leonard Cohen
i'll not join in the anti-war song meme, but it led me to put on Leonard Cohen today (i think The Captain is an anti-war tune, but it's rather ambiguous). his often cheeseball arrangements can be a bar to entry, and we don't hear him much in the US, but i expect his songs to become standards. (no, Hallelujah is not a Rufus Wainright original.)
i love his way with words, and i love the way his voice has been ravaged by time, so that New Skin for the Old Ceremony and I'm Your Man sound like they could have been recorded by different artists.
i'll not join in the anti-war song meme, but it led me to put on Leonard Cohen today (i think The Captain is an anti-war tune, but it's rather ambiguous). his often cheeseball arrangements can be a bar to entry, and we don't hear him much in the US, but i expect his songs to become standards. (no, Hallelujah is not a Rufus Wainright original.)
i love his way with words, and i love the way his voice has been ravaged by time, so that New Skin for the Old Ceremony and I'm Your Man sound like they could have been recorded by different artists.
